Game "Jesus Piece" Cover Art & Release Date

UPDATE: Game plans to drop his new album before year's end.

For the past few weeks, fans have been hearing reports about the Kanye West-inspired direction the rapper Game is taking on his new album Jesus Piece. Now, in a recent report from Rap-Up, we get our first look at the visuals behind the project.

Game recently released the cover art to his upcoming fifth album via his Instagram earlier today. The cover portrays Jesus in a stained glass window with a teardrop tattoo, red bandanna around his mouth, and of course, a Jesus piece.

The religious imagery of the art has already raised the ire of some of his Instagram followers who deemed the work blasphemous. The full image can be seen below.

[October 21]

UPDATE: Game has revealed that his upcoming album Jesus Piece is slated for release on December 11th.

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sfe

I dont think that this is blashphemous at all. Do people know what blashphemy is? He is not comparing himself to G-d or saying G-d is not who he says he is which is what happened in 2 Kings. Do people really know the word of G-d. I think this is his way of showing his care for how he feels about the Lord. I dont listen to rap but I was curious because I heard about his album cover. I heard he was shot and he live which is a blessing and he knows it was not be his might but God's so he has respect for GOd in his heart. I wish him and that other rappr that was shot was still friends G-d really extended their life and for a reason its not over until he says its over and he is still on the throne. Game dont worry about becase Jesus was accused of blashphemy too people for get that. In my opinion and I am allowed to have one its not putting the namem of Jesus down but and the enemy is made about that because here is a rapper mentioning the name Jesus and Hell is trembling.

hellno

hellno

lmao you had to space out god... but then you used it like twice
i dont get when people say your using the lords name in vain even if hes out there somewhere you really think he gives a shit?
god
god
jesus christ
jesus christ
andwhatever other religious bullshit you want to complain about.
this a dope ass album cover, i dont know what the fuck people be getting so worked up about nobody gives a shit about any of that religious shit so he has a dead guy on his cover in reality jesus didnt do shit so fuck it let the game do what he wants hes earned the right hes probably accomplished more in his life than jesus did
i am not a troll i really just think people get too worked up about all that shit we all know its all bullshit

JesusWasBlack

Anonymous

its just a cd cover. mothafuckas act like he spit on the cross. get over it jesus hippies. jesus kicks ass he wudnt care anyway hes probobly laughing at this. and especially this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR1sRsqFrWY

Anonymous

get your facts straight

you sound like a hater. game has done 4 albums and out of those 4 albums, he has 40 whole songs with just him rapping. that's an average of 10 solo songs per album, which his higher than 80% of these other rappers.

Real Talk

He always holds his own projects down. Jay Z had a feature every song except for 1, with his "Hard Knock Life" album and that was his biggest seller. "All Eyes On Me" had a feature on every song except for 1 and it was Pac's biggest seller. "Life After Death" had 7 features and it was Biggie Small's biggest seller, so stop with all your hate.

Anonymous

OL ol Mama Jeezee

Tol you Id ask His Mother bout the cover art. Mama blew big two kisses [just as a Game]...the first landed off Vancouver with a subsonic Boom...and the other?...well, its headin t NYC to blow the fuker around an out. "Mama said knock you out, but She be peace lovin, so She gonna just blow you around like your little bitch sisters hair do. [Batten Down and Word Up].

Zion

History

Tupac got murdered right before his album, with the same type of blasphemous cover, came out back in 1996. People need to learn their lessons. Tupac beat up a crip and it was caught on the surveillance cameras at the casino, just like when Game beat up that crip.

RC

YESSIR FREESTYLE (GAME DISS)

fuck the gayme man
his shit is weak man
wouldnt listen to his song if it featured big pun, pac, and red man
listen to wht i said man
by next year, nigga gon be dead man
or in jail tryin to make bail gettin caught with by the feds man
sorry but i dont listen to a nigga wit no skill
better chance of fndin me sober off of 4 pills
the gaymes music, thats that shit i dont like
always talkin shit but when it come down to it, the nigga wont fight
if he hears a dope line ill bet all my dope that he gon bite
gettin his dick sucked by some nappy headed hoe
prolly came in 2 minutes an said its time to go
his hair look like the end of a mop
listened to his song and asked "whens this shit gonna stop"

Anonymous

PROOF

The Documentary - 18 track / 11 feature from 9 artist
Doctor's Advocate - 16 track / 11 feature from 13 artist
LAX* - 19 track / 16 feature from 15 artist
The R.E.D. Album** - 21 track / 16 feature from 17 artist
* intro / outro counted as feature, while interlude as solo
** - Dr. Dre intro / 2 interlude / outro counted as featured
Total: 71 track overall / 54 featured. Without miscs, its still 64 / 48, which means 75% of the tracks appeared on his LPs are not solo efforts. Get it? 3 tracks out of 4. Let's say "Jesus Piece" will be 16 track length - which is absolutely reasonable -, that'd mean only 4 joints where Game stand on his own. Also interesting that the number of the artists who appeared on his albums are roughly equivalent to the number of non-solo tracks, only plus / minus 1 or 2 is the difference.
As far as "Jesus Piece", judging by its first single, "Celebration", which has 4 different artists on it, his next LP could be the most heavily featured one. By the aforementioned logic, that'd leave him 11 spots for 6-10 person, which is waaaaaay too low for such project. Of course, its just playing with numbers, but following Game since he first came out sounds pretty accurate. We'll see.

UK

Morg

Man, how Game has fell off. From the lofty heights of The Documentary & Doctor's Advocate to the lowly troughs of boasting that 'Weezy' is on his album twice. Dre & 50 made the Game I know, and now he's just a whack sell out who begs for Chris Brown & Tyga features.

...

I don't get why people are so mad about the picture Jesus, what's really irritating is that people are mad because they say Jesus was white LOL, you go to Isreal and see how many white people are there. It's not that controversial, I mean it's not like it's a picture of Muhammad...

Anonymous

all you niggas preaching about respect the same niggas who wish a nigga death just cause you dont like his music or because you think a nigga is homosexual. typical black christians with blind faith only praising jesus because they were raised to do it and never questioned it and probably cant even tell you where their bible is let alone when the last time was that they read it..

Anonymous

asher1985

is this disrespectful? well as a Christian of course I'm going to say yes, but honestly its no worse than 2pacs cover on the 7 day theory. its pure ignorance is all it is. he has to answer for it not us thankfully

D

Anonymous

"THIS IS A POISONOUS DART"
No. It's actually pretty simple. Whether's it Game or Seth McFarlene, it's all in the same bottom barrel vein. People who only care about using shock value to put money in their pocket. Granted, you would be hard pressed to find anyone on the face of this planet who thinks of Game as a role model. He's rapped about every negative thing you can think of, but there are lines that shouldn't be crossed, and this is one of them.

Anonymous

so sensitive

Can't wait for games album. And so many of you are so sensitive for people who listen to rap music.... can't you see how incredibly fucked up you sound when you listen to music that says shit like nigga i'll fucken kill you, smoke weed with bitches and fuck them hardcore. And then you mad about jesus? GTFO

Anonymous

Anonymous

Anonymous

Anonymous

tired of you fake ass stans always trying to justify ignorance and attention whoring with the played out "rap was built on this". you can literal use that inane ass argument for anything. I'm a stripper, but this country was built on opportunism so its okay. gtfoh

Anonymous

I agree. Rap was built on saying things others were afraid to say and speaking your mind no matter who it offends.
Now, you gotta walk on egg shells or the Gay/Wo,ems/Religous groups will throw hissy fits and the artists are too pussy to stick to their guns

redemption

Trillcolm X

G5

1. I'm not a gang banger and never was but all this 5 stuff is irritating to me. Real Bloods don't ride 5. I don't know how many people need to say this but it's just buffoonery to watch how fake some of these guys are. Putting 5 all in his words you not ridin 5 if you Blood. Blood is a gang Vice Lords and BPS are Nations, it's a difference. Go to Chicago with that if you think I'm lying.
2. This album cover is blasphemous, I'm all for creativity but come on dude. I'm not buying this at all. When I first hear about it I thought GAME (being a good lyricist) could actually make a dope gospel rap album without making it cliche but I can tell by the cover that it's gone be wack.
3. GAME is Tri-polar now f bi-polar.
4. I wonder how many 50 cent references he dropped on this
5. You really going to put weed symbols next to GOD's head? For real.
Can we please get the real back. This is pathetic. All that for some fame and record sales. I'm sorry bruh but my soul ain't for sell. Yall can follow this fool if you want to but I'm straight on this one.

Anonymous

Anonymous

SCHWARZ

Your whole stance is rendered irrelevant once you become emotional concerning a depiction of an image when this very same religious belief has a commandment that says "thou shalt not make any graven images before me".
+++++++++++
THIS IS A POISONOUS DART
U SAY THIS PICTURE IS BLASPHEMOUS WHEN U COSIGN A CRUCIFIX & BOW 2 A CROSS
WHEN FAMILY GUY HAS JESUS CHEATING @ A GAME OR GOLF OR WHEN THEY HAVE GOD AS A BALDING WHITE MALE WHO DOESN'T WANT 2 WEAR A CONDOM DO U TAKE TO THE WEB & BULLET POINT SETH MACFARLANE'S LIFE
KEEP IT 100
& SALUTE 2 U 4 NOT BEIN ACTIVE

Ice Cube

Anonymous

so games album cover has a picture of something no one really knows is real or not and everyone goes nuts? grow up folks would you react the same if it was a pic of bigfoot with a rag and chain cause sasquatch and jesus fall into the same category BOOM I JUST BLEW YOUR MIND

Anonymous

Your whole stance is rendered irrelevant once you become emotional concerning a depiction of an image when this very same religious belief has a commandment that says "thou shalt not make any graven images before me".
Please respond with a difference between the father and son when this belief contains a trinity of worship that are supposed to be one of the same, aka equal.
I will make you question your whole life. Go back and read that book.

NoneYa...

They wouldn't have nuts because u talking about bigfoot. Jesus Christ represent a religious belief, that's crossing the line same as if he would did using the image of Allah, Buddha and so on. I'm all for being creative and thinking outside the box. But what the Game doing is opening a pandora box trying to sell records. Folks blowing up embassies because of "pushing the creative envelope"

MegaRevr

Anonymous

As an artist he portrayed Jesus as he deemed fit. Being Italian the artist depicted Jesus as a representation of what he thought would resonate with his people/European world.
So cut that racist talk. It doesn't matter at all how Jesus looked like. Black people are just mad they didn't have painters of the same caliber as Italians from the Renaissance Period. And now they want you to think Jesus was black, 'cause that's all they got: fairytales, nothing of substance to back their claims. He probably had a mediterranean skin tone though. Lol, get mad black people!

Get It Right.

Dude, that's not Jesus. As a black man you should understand that Jesus is no blond, nor is he someone that is going to sit down for a freaking painting. This is a depiction of some painter that made a fake Jesus to look like someone he knew. Get it together man, this does not offend me at all, because this is not a depiction of Jesus.

Trillcolm X

Quest

Anonymous

Exaclty my thoughts! Compared to Game's previous covers its something different, unfortunately after two mediocre attempts its hard to believe that it applies to the content too. Hope he'll prove me wrong, but I smell a huge flop and an incoherent, meaningless LP without any significant style. Next move will be YMCMB for sure, but if you are not Drake, Wayne or Nicki, well ... good luck sitting on the shelf penniless. On the other side, Baby's label can give a big boost to Game's career, what is probably his last chance to stay somehow relevant and last longer in the industry. Don't get me wrong, I loved his first 2 LP and still bang it occasionaly, and while LAX and RED has dope moments (overall both average, especially from him), the big picture shows that Game is getting weaker both on the musical and commercial side. But his biggest flaw is still being such a liar, bipolar, stupid attention whore in the recent years. Its not about his career went downside lately, its about having a f#cked up attitude and killing his own musical legacy for nothing. I wish him the best, but I wouldn't be surprised if 5 years from now he'll be another broke, washed up rapper who failed to live with his chance. And you can't say that it wouldn't be well-deserved ...

Malone

That's interesting. Say what are your views on child pornography being filmed on PBS.... by me? As you can imagine this is a heavy resposibility for me so I turn to you for moral support.
Sincerely Yours
-Malone

Anonymous

ASEE

religion is superstition. no one actually believes this shit. look inside yourself--y'all don't really believe in the miracles in the bible. whenever i meet someone who is "sure" that, say, some guy named Moses parted the red sea, I'm like, damn you're a fucking idiot.

Limpsta

Head Busta by Birdman = GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME. Fuck everybody that hates Birdman. He's a genius. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have Lil Wayne and Drake. That nigga deserves the biggest respect in the world. Fuck Game and his family.

Anonymous

Industry Advocate

Remember Tupac

Remember what happened the last time a rapper representing Los Angeles? Tupac got murdered shortly after he showed the artwork for his Makeveli 7 Day Theory album. Tupac beat up a Crip on camera before the album dropped and so did Game. History may end up repeating itself.

Fish

Blasphemous? Who actually gives a fuck???? Game has spent years rapping about gangs, murder and drugs, but all you faggots have a problem when he has a religious cover art - hypocritical much?
What are you holy-roller dickheads doing listening to gangster rap anyway?
If this offends you, go and grab a Lecrae album and fuck off.
Nice cover Game, don't listen to the easily offended cock suckers.

gsonii

NY-Harlem

Question what is it about all the Ja-Rule comments i have been seeing. Is he whats popping again. Not only on this board but i have been seeing people talk about Ja-Rule for a while now. I think someone told me his last project was fire too. Just want to know whats up with the whole Ja-Rule thing cause i would be happy for him if he is back popping. My little sister was so hurt when 50 cent ended his career.

Anonymous

ALL RAPPERS ARE GAY:

If you think about it, all of your favorite rappers are gay.
*Jay-Z's best friends are gay
*Kanye West wears women's clothes
*Lil Wayne kisses men on the lips and wears lepoard print jeggings
*Eminem hates women
*T.I. and DMX kept going back to jail (they must love the prison sex)
*Drake and Big Sean are closet homosexuals
*Rick Ross and DJ Khaled are always together (they're life partners)
*Nas talked a lot of homo shit about Jay-Z on Ether (stalking Jay?)
*Ludacris is Bieber's butt buddy
*Tupac was a ballerina as a teenager
*Biggie talked about sucking a man's dick (on Me And My Bitch)
*Dr Dre wore some suspicious wardrobe in is time in the World Class Wreckin Crew
*Eazy E had AIDS
*Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa are weed (butt) buddies *2Chainz dickrides Kanye West (literally...)
*J Cole dickrides Jay-Z (literally...)
*Kendrick Lamar dickrides Dr Dre(literally...) and has a gay voice
*Diddy fucked every artist in the business (figuratively and literally)
*Young Jeezy's voice is fucked up (from sucking too much cock) and his nickname is Jizzle (meaning he loves it when it rain jizz all over him)
*50 Cent is super hyper-masculine (meaning he's really a homo)
*Waka Flocka yells on every record (from letting Gucci fuck him in the ass)
*Chief Meet let Jimmy Iovine fuck him in the ass for a deal
*All female rappers are lesbians

nay

2PAC EXPOSED

people say that pac got raped in prison and had a boyfriend in drama school. google "2pac and Eskiah." 2pac was also used to strip and hump blow up dolls on stage yet yall have the nerve to call guys like game gay for allegedly being a male stripper and having a tongue ring. even though pac was a documented stripper and had a nose ring.
2pac also supported queen latfifah at a gay pride concert. if a rapper like wayne or kanye did that today you guys would be all over them for it and hate mongering. yet Pac is guilty of the same behavior. and victim of the same types of rumors.
2pac was also a documented ballerina. The point is you n*ggas live in glass houses and habitually throw stones at today's rappers for doing the EXACT same shit that pac and biggie did! Biggie rapped about raping jesus, fukin men in the ass, and sucking his girl's dad's dick yet you n*ggas say NOTHING! but let kanye where leather and he's a faggot!? You fu

Anonymous

SO ICY BOI FREESTYLE ( GAME DISS)

fuck the gayme man
his shit is weak man
wouldnt listen to his song if it featured big pun, pac, and red man
listen to wht i said man
by next year, nigga gon be dead man
or in jail tryin to make bail gettin caught with by the feds man
sorry but i dont listen to a nigga wit no skill
better chance of fndin me sober off of 4 pills
the gaymes music, thats that shit i dont like
always talkin shit but when it come down to it, the nigga wont fight
if he hears a dope line ill bet all my dope that he gon bite
gettin his dick sucked by some nappy headed hoe
prolly came in 2 minutes an said its time to go
his hair look like the end of a mop
listened to his song and asked "whens this shit gonna stop"

thank you based god

Ricky Rozay

most of these rappers aint real niggas. Word, Nas bankrupt never was a drug runner, Lil Wayne aint no blood, Jeezy aint no BMF, 50 a snitch, Game a stripper, 2pac a ballerina. None of these niggas real you guys. If they was all real they all be dead now. Like it or not Ross is the new biggie.
BAWSE!!!!!

SCHWARZ

Ny-harlem

Also Troll since you comment this same BS all the time on every board no matter what.
Nas actually did sell drugs growing up in QB and he also did stick ups. Mostly everyone did in NY back then the most pussy niggas sold drugs. Especially in Harlem. And dude is not broke just cause he had some IRS issues. He still could buy your life. Put it like this he got way more money then you.
50 Cent really was a gangster nigga sticking niggas up and selling drugs. He is probably the realest nigga in the game as far as he raps about what he does.
Game no comment. But his whole family is gang members and he actually been in shootouts growing up. I don't respect the stripper thing but it is what it is.
2pac was an actor so he took a few ballerina lessons. but 2pac had real gun fights with Cops. So what if he was a ballerina.
Jeezy unlike Rick Ross really had BMF ties. I guess you forget why Jeezy and Ross is beefing. Its because Ross is a fraud shouting out niggas who Jeezy fucks with but Ross is a C.O. and don't even know niggas in BMF.
I know i wasted my time explaining shit. of course your cornball ass will be on the next page posting the same shit. But Ross is the last nigga you should promote as a real nigga and he is the biggest fraud out of all of them.

Ny-Harlem

This nigga is the biggest internet troll ever. Get off Rick Ross dick son. You mention how other rappers are fake but Ross is the biggest fake their is. I swear to god when Rick Ross first came into the game, I honestly thought he know Norega and was a big time coke dealer in Miami. Then years later i see this nigga as a C.O. I never knock a nigga for working a Job, but the fact he denied it and still act like he push keys makes him the biggest fraud in Hip Hop history.

Anonymous

Man the west coast is done. Dre is no longer interested. Game aint got no more. Kendrick wont debut like he was supposed too. Gkmc doesnt sound like it will put the west back on the map. I dont see any other artist from the west with real tAlent. School boy q and soul go hard but they wont get the support from big names like they deserve. Looks like ymcmb will continue to flood the air waves. And i dont listen to any of them.

Anonymous

You niggas should be mad that fiddy got pushed back.
Fif is still Aftermath, Game too.
Now each time one of them releases an album(Em as well) Dre uses that as an excuse not to release the album on top of him being scared.
The only time we can get Detox is when Fiddy, Game have dropped their fucking albums.
Cuz best believe Dre won't release shit if them niggas dont'
Now Game supposed to be 4th quarter so u can forget about that,
Kendrick Dropping next week so we can forget about that, Dre will use Kendrick alone just not to drop detox in 2012.
Now if Game gets pushed back, which I believe he will, it will be onto 2013, same for fiddy. Now we don't get no fucking detox in 2013.
Oh don't forget, Eminem said he's working on an album too.
NIGGA WE AINT NEVER GON GET DETOX

Anonymous

niggas call wayne a pop star.. like no ceilings was pop? sorry4the wait was pop? lil wayne is pop when he shows up on every kids bob, and i don't think his lyrics gonna make the disney channel cut. it sounds cute when y'all say it.. but it doesn't make sense.. wayne is no where near pop.

YESSIR

waynes's going to be remembered as the next pac. How can you not award him that right. Look how much he has done for hip hop. Hip Hop album says have been on slow decline, yet Wayne has been the small breath of air keeping it alive and bringing in money by bringing in ATTENTION.
Attention is what keeps music or anything else alive. He branches out and does other things than music. He features on other artists of different genres albums. Pac would be proud of Wayne if he were still alive and I even believe he would agree to sign to Young Money records and help Wayne build even bigger empire.
If Wayne were to die, he WOULD become the same vessel of icon as Pac was and still is to this day. Look how many people bite Waynes style same as they did pac(Nas, Ja Rule). Yall know its true but are just to afraid to admit it.

ny-harlem

ny-harlem

When is the cornest cornball out right now. Fuck his music every real nigga knows he sucks.(i use to like Wayne post Carter3) But how you turned 30 years old and now all of a sudden nigga wanna learn how to ride skate boards. If anything Wayne is a nigga who bite and take niggas style. I can't respect a nigga who wants to learn how to ride skate boards at the age of 30. Wayne is a cornball and he sell all of these records and Baby is still jerking that nigga.

ny-harlem

Yo Lil Wayne doesn't even write his own shit. He got ghost writers you fucking idiot. When Gillie the Kid was writing his shit wayne was nice. When BG and Turk was writing his shit he was nice in the hot boy days. Now that Drake is writing his shit he is a cornball. And other then niggas like 2Chains niggas aint trying to steal Waynes style cause that nigga raps about nothing and his raps have no substance.

HaveSomeDignity

Anonymous

Fuck the bible, all religion is mad made and bullshit. There is no such thing as an afterlife. When you die....that's it, game over. When u die it will be like before you we're born...nothingness. I like the album cover, but the album will be weak, he needs more dre beats and less of the love songs

Anonymous

Anonymous

Malone

The only way Jesus himself will see this and not take it upon himself to castrate the game, is if he has the same sense of humor game has... but if not...(sighs)..oh well..you could say bye bye to that wiener mr..

Anonymous

Anonymous

... he said, forgetting that the entire concept of Jesus as a messiah was forced on black culture and the rest of the world through colonialism, torture, and warfare, and the "black jesus" movement is a sad, flaacid attempt to carve out some respect in a prison of trickery.

Mike

BLACK

THAT NIGGA A GENIUS FOR THIS ONE (ALTHOUGH I'M SURE HE DIDNT COME UP WITH THE IDEA HIMSELF)...BUT THIS WILL BRING MUCH NEEDED ATTENTION, BILL OREILLY IS PROBABLY GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT IT AND EVERYTHING
AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS WILL NOT BE THE REAL COVER, BUT ITS GONNA HAVE PPL TALKING ABOUT HIM

ILL ASS COVER WITH CONSEQUENCES

Game Time

Shut tha F up punks! damn Game what u did to these niggaz mamas dat they hatin so much!? get a life F.A.G.G.O.T.S, cover is cool though, haters kiss my ass, go Bump that In Da Club, Go Go Go Shawty :)))

Anonymous

Fuck Compton

Fuck Game for this publicity stunt

Used to be a Game fan and I defended his bullshit at his worse but this shit is sacrilegious.You may believe or agree with a certain faith but you don't mock it and exploit it to sell records.Fuck him and his music and he just lost a long time fan behind this bullshit..

YESSIR

So Icy Boi!

okay niggaz, let me share my opinion.
1. I used to hate Jayceon (The Game), because of his weak debut album, Dr. Dre fucked it up and R.E.D. album was pretty weak tho.
2. I used to be an atheist, then devil worshiper. SlipKnot, Nickelback, My Chemical Romance and Three 6 Mafia were my fav bands and/or groups. yeah, I was a black emo.
3. In 2008 I met Lil Wayne's amazing muzik. I realized an important message in his muzik: he is da reincarnation of Jesus Christ or God. Weezy da King showed me da gangsta life. I became a blood nigga. I like diz lifestyle. I call myself a Christian Blood.
4. back to Jayceon Terrell Taylor aka The Game. he reallied diz fact too. Weezy da God. hiz new album artwork is just like my vision. Weezy in da middle, in his Immortal God Look. mad respect brother Jayceon, mad respect. I will purchase your amazing CD and I will try to like your weak west coast beats. PS I wish a Lil Wayne collab. ;) swag